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Originally Posted by Frank Kelley
If they issue a certificate with each, I suppose the number ultimately made could not exceed the number of fatal casualties incurred during the battle of Normandy, I see your example is dedicated to a Canadian soldier.
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My poppy arrived today, the card dedicates it to Marine Cyril Bainbridge who died on 6th June 1944.
Due to the wonders of the internet I found that he was in 47 RM Commando, aged 23 and from Old Basford, Nottingham.
http://forum.commandoveterans.org/cd...list/1371.page